Week 5: Machine Coordinators: B. Holzer, J. Wenninger
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Date |
Summary |
Link to report from morning meeting |
| Mon 4th February |
- 01:00 beam dump" BPM6
- 02:00 new injection, 192x216 bunches
- 03:50 stable beams
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09:00 meeting |
| Sun 3rd February |
- 06:00 Fillinfg192b / beam.
- 07:30 Stable beams fill 3420, 192b/beam.
- 12:00 beam dump due to spurious trigger SIS
- 16:30 new injecion, BLM MF set to 0.3 for most crotocal BLMs.
- 338 bunches injected & ramped
- 17:40 beam dump due to BLM threshold at beta*=3m
- new injection: back to 192x216 bunches
- 21:00 stable beams
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09:00 meeting |
| Sat 2nd February |
- 06:00 Loss maps in collisions.
- 13:00 Loss map and synch dump campaign finished.
- 16:00 Filling 338 b.
- 18:00 Dump during cogging, losses at Q9R7.B1.
- 19:15 Filling 96b/beam.
- 20:40 Stable beams fill 3416, 96b/beam.
- 22:00 Dump.
- Overnight problems with ion beam from LEIR.
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09:00 meeting |
| Fri 1stth February |
- 03:00 Injection.
- 05:00 Stable beams fill 3510.
- 09:30 beam dump, preparing for Pb/p run
- injection delayed (pump at MKI8 switch)
- 15:00 injection probe ebam
- 16:30 flat top. rephasing rf
- 18:00 squeeze, adjust: TCT alignment
- 21:00 start loss maps
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08:30 meeting |
| Thu 31th January |
- 03:00 Stable beams fill 3509, beams separated in IP1,5.
- 14:00 Beam dumped by OP, integrated L in ALICE 2.2 nb-1.
- Cryo issue in S23, cold compressor.
- Access for experiments, wire-scanners, quench test, cryo etc
- 23:00 Pre-cycle.
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08:30 meeting
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| Wed 30th January |
- 03:50 Beam dump, BPM interlock.
- 07:00 Problems with UX45 cooling (Faraday cage).
- 08:30 Cooling fixed.
- 10:00 ADT test with ultra low intensity for quench test.
- 16:00 Access to UX45 for RF and to Pt2 for CV (water leak).
- 20:00 problem with beam imminent warning system.
- 23:00 Pre-cycle.
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08:30 meeting
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| Tue 29th January |
- 03:22 Beam dump fill 3503, interlock BPMs IR6.
- 04:30 Injection.
- 08:40 Stable beams fill 3504.
- 09:00 VdM scan in IP8
- 11:00 VdM scan in IP2
- 14:00 VdM done, continue with stable beams.
- 15:50 Beam dump, BPM interlock.
- Short access for QPS.
- 19:00 Injection.
- 20:40 Stable beams fill 3505.
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08:30
meeting
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| Mon 28th January |
- 07:40 Injecting 15 b/beam for test cycle after ALICE polarity
reversal.
- 09:15 Dump with loss map.
- 10:00 Injecting for VdM fill, problems with beams in LEIR, with
interlock BPMs.
- 13:30 Beam dumped in the ramp by spurious BLM trigger
in IR4.
- 15:00 Filling for VdM fill. Problems with p beam in the SPS, tails
due to injection kicker.
- 18:15 Finally filling for VdM scan in IR1/5.
- 20:40 Stable beams fill 3503. VdMs in IR1 and IR5.
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08:30
meeting
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